After collecting up all the extra junk I had laying around, mostly from collections of electronics gear I bought back in college, I spent several hours a couple weekends ago writing descriptions and taking accurate pictures of everything. I had tried to list the more expensive items once before but couldn’t get what I thought they were worth. I finally decided that I wasn’t going to use them so I might as well just sell them for what I can.
I am excited that I made enough to put a decent chunk of money towards the truck repayment, however it’s a little saddening that two of the items are worth over $1ooo each (about what I paid for them 5 years ago) but only brought 299 each. I guess I just have to look at it from the standpoint of that was the past back when I racked up credit cards, now that the credit cards are paid off, this is really just some gravy left overs that I don’t need anymore.
Anyway, the tally for all the junk (I say junk, but it’s actually really nice stuff) is about $165o.00, so by the time I take out ebay fees and shipping leaves me about 1500 bucks left over. So I cut a check for 1500 to the bank and will drop it in the mail tomorrow.
Man it feels good to write those checks.
The best part is that our balance remaining on the truck is around $2k right now, so this should only leave about a 500 dollar balance.
We bought the truck new on Dec 23rd, 2006 with a 5 year note. I am so impressed that we have been able to clean up our act this much this fast. Two years ago our finances were a wreck, and now almost 2 years to date after taking on this new truck note at 23,500 our balance is only 500.
Words just cannot explain how good this makes me feel.
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